Q: I was viewing a product on a large beauty website today, and I received an email, I never ever gave them my email.
Can they be sued for however they got my information? and how to go about it?
A:
It depends on how they got your information, whether that method is legal, and what legally compensable damages you sustained.
If you genuinely sustained substantial compensable damages as a result, I recommend you hire a private investigator who specialized in cybersecurity and investigating identity theft problems. Depending upon how they got your information, you should anticipate that it will cost you $25,000-100,000 or more for the PI to ascertain exactly how they got your information.
You could then take that information to an attorney who specializes in identity theft and cybercrimes to evaluate whether the way they obtained your information was legal or not. Depending upon how new or novel the method was, you should anticipate that it will cost you $10,000-25,000 for an attorney to give you a well-thought recommendation about whether to pursue the matter with an estimate of the litigation cost.
Realize in the absence of a specifically applicable statute, non-economic injury like mental anguish is usually not recoverable for injuries that do not result in bodily injury or death.
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